The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-06-16

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the best results. In fact, with Spring
grain, oats or barley. sowing plump,
large seed is a necessity, to prevent it
from running out in u hot, dry eli
mate. In many localities seed oats
have to be renewed every few years
by importations from Europe. III ma
tive kinds de~teriorating SO rapidly.
This depreciation Of quality anu yield
may be prevented by thorough grading
of seed, rejecting all except the larg-
est and heaviest. Not so much of
this graded grain will be required to
seed an acre, for the reason that every
kernel will produce a strong plant,
while with ungraded seed much will
not grow, or if it does, will only be in
the way of that which should make
the crop. If in any event we set our
produce from one-half, and often from
less, of the seed sown, what. object
a there be in literally throwing away
the remainder The light grain
thrown out in grading seed is worth
more as feed than for anything else.
SEEDING WITH OATS.
There is a general belief among farm
ers that oats are not so good to seed
with as other grains. For y reason
they are sown later and on poorer land
than Spring wheat or barley. The oat
crop receives less attention than any
other, and its seed is often covered
with clods not mellowed down as would
be deemed necessary for other grains.
It also remains on the ground one to
three weeks longer than barley sown
at the same time, and the later growth
comes at the most trying time for young
clover or timothy. The farmers who
seed with oats generally lack faith, and
do not lavish their seed so literally as
those who SOW other grains. Unless a
man has faith and hope in what he is
doing it is scarcely possible for him to
do anything well. Sow at least a peck
of clover. seed if sown alone, or six
quarts of timothy seed is also sown,
and seeding with oats will almost GER
tainly be a success. The probability
that some grass seed will fail with this
crop is surely nj reason for seeding
more sparingly with it than with others.
c~oRNsTALKs IN SPRING.
There is little value in dried corn
stalks late in the season, especially
when they have been kept dry through
Winter. The repeated freezing to
which our winter climate subjects them
drives out all the natural juices of the
plant, leaving little except woody fibre.
Early in the season they are better feed,
and it is therefore advisable to feed
early, reserving fodder which deterior-
ates less until late in the season. When
Spring approaches stock begins to
banker after fresh feed, and will not
eat stalks so readily as either hay or
straw. Where many are left on hand
in the Spring, it may be worth while to
keep them over sometimes-tbonoh they
s-o ~acn u refuge for rat anu mice
that generally as good use as can be
made is to throw them out as a mulch
for some trees that are not to be plow-
ed around during the Summer. Whole
corn stalks lying loose are very hard to
cover with a pillow, and they decay
slowly in dry land during Summer,
having a tendency to make the land
dryer than ever. Burning old n
stalks loses all their value, except for
the small amount of ashes they con-
tain, and should not be adopted until
they have served one seasons use as
mulch. By this time much of its sub
stance will be dissolved by rains and
carried into the soil. american Guilt
GATOR.